Research at AFD

Fighting global warming, preserving biodiversity, maintaining social link… AFD conducts studies, research, and evaluations on these and many other topics. This work is essential if we want to analyze the many challenges facing our planet, because anticipating and better understanding problems leads to more effective action.

AFD Group’s research focuses on several themes: the fight against inequalities, the “commons” approach to sustainable development, and economic analysis of the countries where we operate. Our multidisciplinary and innovative research involves multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is structured around signature programs, with special attention to Africa.

Discover all of AFD’s research and evaluation publications: our studies, our ex-post evaluations, our research papers, our macroeconomic analyses, etc. More than 850 publications can be found in a dedicated website section with many filters available, in French and in English.

You can find all of AFD's research publications such as our studies, policy briefs, research papers, and macro-economic analyses in a dedicated space. Filters are available to refine your research by theme, location, etc.

Thanks to AFD’s multidisciplinary team of researchers, we can mobilize methods and instruments from such varied fields as economics, demography, sociology, urban planning, climatology, and ecology. Our researchers fuel reflections on transitions and on the most suitable public policies to accompany them.